Was Stanton a murder target?

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John,

Just read your remarks. What I understand is that there is (still) no hard evidence re. Booth’s trip to Baltimore on April 13 and that there is only one “mystery source” (“Justice”). One source is no source. Only by manipulating the time by saying that Booth was early in the morning at Ford's and that he spoke with Hess late in the afternoon would create a possibility. But what if those times are different (i.e. late in the morning, early afternoon respectively)? Why to change April 13, to April 12? To manipulate time intervals is not the way to do reliable research. Further, Roger made a very good point and is right. Booth did send telegrams to O’Laughlen in the past. Remember the March 13, 1865 telegram: "Don't fear to neglect your business. You better come at once". And if O’Laughlen was indeed ordered to come to DC by Booth personally, why did he then travel with James B. Henderson , Edward Murphy and Bernard T. Early? Isn’t that strange? It would be more appropriate / logical that he traveled discretely to DC, after all, they stood on the threshold to murder the president.